The art of spooking

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Mastered!!
 
The ridden Appy does the horizontal teleport, the Grand Prix and the Strike a Pose and Snort :D Hoping the Young Appy doesn't learn any of them when I start riding hher in the spring :)
 
Hehe! My old gelding was an expert at horizontal teleport in his younger days, really taught me how to stay on! My mare normally just does the wannabe dressage horse
 
OP, you've missed one - I had a Haffie that used to take off into a powerful Capriole with absolutely no warning, straight through any bit or contact and into the air like an arrow. If I got left behind (like, err, usually) he'd immediately follow up with a buck, leaving me flat on my back some way behind him.


My old welshie used to do the horizontal teleport - leaving me hanging in the air for a moment like Wilee Coyotee before crashing down.
 
Roberto starts with the 'strike a pose' then the 'dressage wannabe' giving me enough time to reinforce in him that he is being a complete plonker!
When a black & white cob turned up at the yard to hack out with us the other week though Roberto excelled himself managing not a diagonal half pass but a sideways version, first to the left, then to the right as the piebald rolled its eyes and muttered 'wtf are you doing?'
On occasion the welsh dragon in him plays up but the moment he does the rodeo bronc is the moment I lose my cool with him!
 
Mines a snorter followed by either a vertical or horizontal teleport with the occasional panicked piroette thrown in. Lucky me...
 
My boy does both the horizontal and vertical teleports!! Vertical one when he's asked to walk through water - can't let that dangerous stuff touch his feet, oh, no no no no no!
 
Archie did the perfect "panicked pirouette" on Sunday. I was half turned around talking to my friend behind me and not concentrating so ended up in a puddle:mad:. I wouldn't have minded if the prat hadn't just gone past several large lorries, horse trailers, buses, a JCB and even an ambulance complete with lights and sirens on the main road without the slightest reaction not 5 minutes before or if he hadn't spooked at something quite so ridiculous as a beer bottle just lying at the side of the road :rolleyes:
 
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Hahaha that's great, reminds me of the Thelwell books. The last horse I had did "the fairy" which was a more pathetic version of the grand prix dressage wannabe and he also indulged in "the Moonwalk" which was to walk backwards while scraping his feet like an angry bull.
 
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